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Cuomo Tries to Fool Public Into Thinking Tea Party Members Support His Budget Proposal

February 6th, 2011 · No Comments

It appears as if a dyed-in-the-wool liberal is trying to fool the public into thinking members of the Tea Party Movement support his controversial budget proposal for the Empire State.  That politician is New York’s recently-elected Democrat governor, Andrew Cuomo. Tonight, because I suspect it won’t be the last attempt by libs like Cuomo to [...]

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Passenger-Friendly Screening Technology Ready (Update)

December 1st, 2010 · 36 Comments

Full-body scans, pat-downs and other procedures wouldn’t be necessary at the nation’s airports if the federal government, including the Transportation Security Administration, would only turn to a safer, touch-free, passenger-friendly technology with nearly four decades of success behind it. Because of its timeliness in relation to current events, I share a slightly-modified version (below the [...]

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Biased Media Outlets Ignore ‘CRUDE’ Outtakes

October 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Imagine the following scenario taking place on the world stage: Scene 1: Employees of one of the world’s largest oil companies are found to be in league with a right-wing film producer in an effort to produce a documentary aimed at helping the company fend off a lawsuit in a third-world country’s court that, if [...]

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Texas Top State for Business, California Worst

May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

For the fifth year in a row, CEOs rated Texas as the #1 state in which to do business and California as the worst, according to a Chief Executive magazine survey. North Carolina maintained its #2 rank, while Tennessee rose two positions to the #3 spot. Virginia was up three slots from last year to [...]

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Chevron Request for ‘CRUDE’ Footage Approved (Update)

May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Courthouse News Service reported Monday that Chevron Corp. asked a federal judge Friday to order the release of outtakes from Joseph Berlinger’s 2009 documentary, “CRUDE” (trailer below).  Today, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan granted the San Ramon, Calif.-based oil giant’s request, leaving one question unanswered:  Will the footage exonerate the company and bring an end [...]

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Obama Administration Harboring Enemy Within

February 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Paul Hollrah, Guest Blogger On Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, the Obama Administration announced that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four co-conspirators would be brought from Guantanamo Bay to New York to be tried for their crimes… the trial to be held just blocks from where ten Muslim jihadists murdered [...]

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Though Much Has Changed, Obama Has Not

February 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Almost three years have passed since the day a first-term junior U.S. senator from Illinois used lofty language to announce to a crowd in Springfield, Ill., that he would seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2008.  Though much has changed, much of what I observed about that presidential candidate still holds true about [...]

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